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Empowered and Involved: Final study on #EngagEUrCouncil

#EngagEUrCouncil

Throughout the past two years, young citizens from Germany, Portugal and Slovenia have developed ideas for the future of Europe under the guidance of IEP. This study offers project evaluation and lessons learned for the future.

Needed: a comprehensive cross-sectoral EU reform package

Berlin Perspectives

The Conference on the Future of Europe concluded that the EU needs a fundamental reform to face current challenges. The German government and a group of like-minded states should propose a comprehensive cross-sectoral reform package with the European Monetary Union at its centre.

Momentum for change: How to proceed with the results of the Conference on the Future of Europe

On May 9, 2022, the Conference on the Future of Europe concluded with European citizens presenting their proposals. Now, it is up to policymakers at all levels to set the course for implementing the ideas.

Conference on the Future of Europe: Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war

The Conference on the Future of Europe provides important impetus for the EU's role in the world and a common European foreign policy. In the light of Russia's war against Ukraine, the question of the significance of the results of the Conference arises.

Brochure: EngagEUrCouncil collection of ideas

#EngagEUrCouncil

Europe should become more sustainable, sovereign and resilient. The brochure presents young people's demands for the future of Europe, which they developed over two years as part of the #EngagEUrCouncil project.

Young ideas for the future of Europe

#EngagEUrCouncil

Young Europeans are actively involved in the institutionalised debate on reform and the future of the European Union. They have formulated their demands for the Conference on the Future of Europe. Strategic sovereignty of the EU and climate policy are the most important points.

Young voices on the Future of Europe conference

#EngagEUrCouncil

Empowerment, participation, human rights – in one word, young Europeans formulate their wishes for the Conference on the Future of Europe. We filmed it.

German-Nordic-Baltic assessments on shaping the future of Europe

The European project will remain sustainable as long as the EU is capable of change. During the 13th German-Nordic-Baltic Forum, experts discussed solutions for the EU in the world, its values and sustainability, and the Future Conference.

Towards a true Health Union

Continuing to combat the pandemic, improving structures, rethinking treaties – Dr. Thomas Steffen, State Secretary of the German Ministry of Health, discussed a European Health Union together with the guests of the Lunch Debate.

EU integration at a crossroads: The future of the EU and German European policy

IEP Annual Conference

What do European experts from academia and politics think about the future of the EU, participatory democracy, differentiated integration and recovery and solidarity in the EU? At the IEP Annual Conference, they discussed these issues in order to find common solutions.

integration 2/21

Brexit as a "wicked problem", the Conference on the Future of Europe, current developments in EU social policy, German European policy since Maastricht and other topics in the new issue of integration.

Policy Paper – Recommendations for the Conference on the Future of Europe

Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy

How is it still possible to make the Conference on the Future of Europe a successful experiment transnational deliberative democracy?

Graphic – Overview Stages on Future Conference

Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy

Our chronology provides an overview of all the stages of the protracted negotiations on the Conference of the Future of Europe

Yearbook of European Integration 2020

In 111 articles, the authors trace European policy events of 2019/20 and provide information on the work of the EU institutions, the development of EU policy areas, Europe's role in the world, and European policy in the member states and candidate countries.

A preliminary assessment of the German EU Council presidency

Gunther Krichbaum, MdB, Chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs discussed EU migration policy, the investment agreement with China and the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Study – Strengthening the democratic legitimacy of the EU

Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy

Strengthening parliamentary democracy, reforming participatory democracy to achieve more citizen involvement, and creating clear responsibilities for economic policy in the eurozone. The state of democracy at the EU level has been analysed.

integration 3/20

The negotiations on digital taxation models, opportunities for Austrian-German cooperation, challenges of the German EU Council Presidency and the participatory approach of the Conference on the Future of Europe are analyzed in this issue.

German pre-presidency conference: Shaping the future of Europe

IEP Annual Conference

Academics, political and civil society representatives, and young adults agree that in times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union must take a stand for its values while striving for cohesion and justice.

The election of destiny and its aftermath – One year after the European election

The atmosphere after the European elections, the influence of the member states, nation-state action: Katarina Barley, SPD top candidate in the 2019 European elections, discussed the state of play after the past EU election.